ESP has a unique team. We have experience from the classroom to the federal government level and in the corporate world. Most significantly, our team members share experiences with our clients. Please take a moment to get acquainted with us from the very brief blurbs below and follow the links on individual names for more details.
Glynn D. Ligon, Ph.D.
Glynn sees solutions from local, state, national, and personal perspectives in every project. He has visited every state education agency, most extra-governmental territories, and an abundance of local school districts. His insights are reflected in ESP’s products that can govern an organization’s metadata, collect and report quality data from the schools to the state, and send any state’s data to the feds flawlessly. Glynn knows that no system or national standard is static, so working in partnership with clients is always an opportunity to learn and create even better solutions to support decision making.
Barbara S. Clements, Ph.D.
Barbara’s name was once misprinted as Dr. Elements; thus, creating a most righteous and accurate moniker. She has contributed to so many national data standards efforts that her resume teems with acronyms. Many education agencies are governing their data systems with policies, management processes, and procedures she helped them develop. Dr. Clements’ phone rings frequently with calls from all over seeking her advice. She is in active retirement now as a member of ESP’s Board of Directors.
James M. Rife
Jim is incredible at managing development resources to achieve what the client really needs. Technical project management is Jim’s forte, bailiwick, bag of tricks. Somehow he manages to understand the client’s requirements through their handy documentation, ask the right questions, and keep our resources on schedule. BTW, those are not typical traits in our market.
Joshua Goodman, PMP
Josh has shown other PMI certified project managers that in education agencies, the standard practices and processes tread their way among the nuances of unique policies and practices of our own industry. Josh has developed for ESP the Quality Project Management process especially for large-scale technology implementations in education environments. He’s quite a show to watch—sign up for a tour.
Jessica Swafford
As our Project Support Manager, Jessica will be your advocate. She’s really your support manager because she’s responsible for our products working for you for a variety of projects. She literally has vultures land on the ledge outside her office window; so you won’t phase her one bit with your problem or request. Jessica is the nation’s best CEDS cartographer.
Alex Katz
Alex supports our Vertical Reporting Framework (VRF) product by being the lead developer, but also stepping out to communicate directly with clients about their needs and roadmap desires. If you have an opportunity to talk to Alex about VRF and vertical reporting, you will be impressed with the depth of his understanding of the LEA’s perspective linked to the SEA’s perspective and how the two merge in his world.
Darrell Prather
Darrell has been with ESP for many years and with many of our projects; thus, he holds a wealth of our institutional knowledge about LEA, SEA, and federal data. Darrell is an extreme expert on EDFacts. He has personally worked with nine states in their reporting. Darrell can quote EDFacts submission specifications at the family dinner table. Oh, maybe that’s not the best thing for him to do. You should use his time better.
Rajesh Dhanwada
Raj is a master designer and developer with deep understanding of standards. A couple of his latest apps are MAP2™ and EdTechTerms™ that link and navigate us across those pesky terms that someone else named and defined for us.
Stan Jordan, Ph.D.
Stan Jordan knows so many business rules for our SRM clients that he could enroll your 2 year-old child in high school. He wouldn’t because that’s one of his famous fatal errors. When we travel to an SEA, one of the first things we’re told is, “We love Stan.” I think that’s a business rule for greeting us.
Tuan Nguyen
Tuan Nguyen is our secret QA team leader. He blocks the door (really locks the server) until the software release is perfect. ESP is known for software products that require minimal support and maintenance. Tuan’s QA is the reason.
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